Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho de Souzais a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He is the recipient of numerous international awards, amongst them the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. His novel The Alchemist has been translated into 80 languages. The author has sold over 200 million copies worldwide and is the all-time bestselling Portuguese language author...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 August 1947
CityRio de Janeiro, Brazil
CountryBrazil
Don't live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first.
Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.
and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.
People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.
behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.
Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.
This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.
Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.